Not embracing jihadists - but the Muslims that oppose them, or are uninvolved. And that doesn't mean being a peace loving hippy either, it's a strategy. You'll always have the law enforcement aspect of it, from routine police work, arrest, taking out active guys etc. but there's also the more subtle intelligence process, which is done through mosques, community networking, empowerment etc. The point is to not give in to the over-arching terrorist strategy. Terrorism like this isn't an existential threat in Europe unless those societies abandon their values and way of life the way the terrorists want.
An interesting note on something I read in
"The Way of Strangers" (which is fascinating by the way), is that jihadist recruiters have a hierarchy for determining who they target for recruitment.
They generally target people who have a religious background of sorts, but who aren't particularly religious now or abandoned it at some point, and also don't know very much about it - part of why so many of the European jihadists have criminal/drug/prostitution etc. histories. And also people who feel marginalised, looking for greater meaning (jihadism offers cosmic glory for example) and so on. So not poor or uneducated people necessarily, as the trope often goes.
And last on their list of who to target are devout Muslims who know the Koran and the have studied it etc. In a way it insulates them against the recruitment strategy, which is to provide very black & white & rigid answers to everything.
Left, PC policies? You mean from the right wing Conservative Party government that's been there for 7 years?
